{"product_id":"the-image-of-her","title":"The Image Of Her","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe’s living a perfect life – so why does Laurence feel so torn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – Laurence’s life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind writes copy while she’s at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll her life she has strived to meet the expectations of others. But when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world, Laurence must finally grapple with a life that prizes image over truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSlim but powerful, this is a classic story of womanhood and its oppressors, parents and their children, and the quest for personal truth – by the iconic feminist Simone de Beauvoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Inseparables:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Passionate and tragic’ Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘A ravishing work of art’ Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls – and the pressures that sunder them’ Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘In Lauren Elkin's fine translation, the lucid, sculpted prose can flare into starbursts of introspective sensuality... Beauvoir could write like a dutiful daughter of the French classics’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073898995891,"sku":"9781784879907","price":720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/71M-Vt8yD6L.jpg?v=1762882757","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-image-of-her","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}